but just four months to come, if not generations. speaking of oligarchy, you had this week, the russian oligarchy blasted what he called his countries quote, massacre in ukraine. oleg tinkov is considered one of russia s most well-known entrepreneurs. now, one of the most high-profile russians to publicly condemn putin s actions. i mean, you are talking about a contact it a recording you have another russian oligarchy. your thoughts on this? and are we likely to see any consequences against these types of oligarchy, who are now feeling more emboldened to speak out, and condemn the invasion? look, i mean the ones who haven t been sanctions are still susceptible to the pariah effect of sanctions. every russian businessman has seen essentially it s toxic. now they can t get foreign direct capital. they can do business deals, with the investments they ve been planning, concluding with a host of western financial institutions. but we re also seeing a kind of rally around the flag mome
suicide, in gravely and eerily similar fashion. i would expect a lot more stuff like this coming down the pipe in the next few weeks and months. yeah, it s definitely troubling sign, and also i couldn t agree with you more that whatever was happening over the past 20 years, to try to get russia into with the western systems of economies and what have you, is story now being undone over the past 60 days or so. michael weiss, i want you to stick around. up next, i would ask your thoughts about the french elections, and what they mean in particular, because of the far-right candidate marine le pen and her ties to russia. (customer) [reading] save yourself?! money with farmers? (burke) that s not wrong. when you switch your home and auto policies to farmers, you could save yourself an average of seven hundred and thirty dollars. (customer) that s something. (burke) get a whole lot of something with farmers. we are farmers.bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum
quote, small but growing number of senior kremlin insiders are quietly questioning putin s decision to go to war, which they reportedly view as quote, a catastrophic mistake. for more on all of this, and more, let s bring in michael weiss, news director at new orleans magazine, and author of the forthcoming history of russian military intelligence. michael, thanks for coming back on the program. your thoughts on the possible visit to ukraine from secretaries blinken and austin? if true, they would be the highest level u.s. officials to visit since the beginning of the war. obviously, we saw the british prime minister there. we ve seen other senior european officials, and it may appear, according to zelenskyy, that now you have the state, secretary of state, and secretary of defense heading there. yeah, that s right. and the secretary of defense, i think, is going to germany to meet with some 40 countries that have committed arms and other material support to ukraine. so this would be
the ukrainian government says that a russian missile attack in the port city of odessa scarlet least five people, including a young child. meanwhile, efforts to evacuate civilians out of mariupol have been again halted, and again, because of the ongoing threats of russian shelling. also breaking, excuse me, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy, saying that several secretary of state antony blinken, and defense secretary lloyd austin will arrive in ukraine tomorrow for defense talks. and this is news has not yet confirmed that claim, and no u.s. government agency has yet to comment on zelenskyy s remarks. the visit comes as early signs of doubt may actually start to emerge in moscow. bloomberg is reporting that a quote, small but growing number of senior kremlin insiders are quietly questioning putin s decision to go to war, which they reportedly view as quote, a catastrophic mistake. for more on all of this, and
this was inevitable. russia has gone from being an authoritarian state to adulatory state, within the past few months. just today, there was a reporting by independent russian outlet that textbooks are now being expunged of all positive references to ukraine. you know, the roofs, the kind of cradle western civilization, i don t know how they re gonna manage that one. you know, so we re seeing kind of a re-styling of russian society. and those who do not come to heal, which is to say, those who do not basically stand for putin and this war are going to face consequences. you re seeing also today, or this week, reports the two different russian oligarchs, one in moscow, the other in spain, murdered their families, and then committed quote, suicide, in greatly and eerily similar fashion. i would expect a lot more stuff like this coming down the pipe in the next few weeks and months. yeah, it s definitely troubling sign, and also i couldn t agree with you more